Is Baidu an Antivirus Software or a Spyware/Malware?

[TempoMat]

Unfortunately I have had Baidu installed silently before on a Windows 7 computer currently being used by a friend.
The friend might have unintentionally clicked on one of those luring adverts while surfing or it might have been in an installation package.
Though I had AVAST as firewall installed on this computer, Baidu managed to install itself and I only got to know of it, because it was suggestion to buy a full version and then the behaviour was brought to my attention.

At that time it was quite easy to uninstall it. And since then I have asked the friend never to install any non trusted programs without consultation.

I am now currently living far away from home and only have 3 laptops available so I can not experiment with this current BavPro_Setup. Otherwise I could have installed it on some of the old WinXP computers I have lying around at home to fully analyse the behaviour.

Originally Posted by RedBlkJck

Yeah I seen that in a JDownloader package before also.

I had until only recently avoided installing the current version 2.

Originally Posted by RedBlkJck

If SpyBot was active, it could've been a conflict while it was silently being installed.

SpyBot, TrendMicro and Windows Essentials were all active and yet Baidu managed to install.

Originally Posted by mr.exodia

Hm,
Maybe you used a cracked winxp with some rootkit inside?
Greetings

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I did not use a cracked WinXP here.

My formal company subscribes to MSDN so I had options of getting legit copies. I just slipstreamed some of the original ones with downloaded Service Packs when necessary.